Before the game, the National Anthem was sung by Brittany Best, who is a student at Berklee School of Music in Boston.
It was the seventh time that she sang the anthem at Progressive Field after she first did so at age 15.
Before Game 1 on Thursday, the anthem was sung by Scott Posey, the Music Director at Lake Catholic High School.
Former player Travis Fryman threw the ceremonial first pitch.
Fryman played five seasons for the Indians since 1998.
Before the first game, the ceremonial first pitch also was thrown by Sandy Alomar, Jr., another former player of the Indians (1990-2000).
Alomar also had been the Cleveland-Manager in 2012.
The Yankees struck early, scoring twice in the first inning off of Corey Kluber.
With one out, Aaron Judge walked and scored when Gary Sánchez followed with a homerun.
With two outs, Starlin Castro doubled and Greg Bird reached on an error, but with runners at the corners, Kluber closed with a strikeout.
The Indians immediately answered with two runs of its own in the bottom of the first off of CC Sabathia.
Lead-off hitter Francisco Lindor reached on an error, then the bases got loaded with one out when José Ramirez walked and Edwin Encarnacion was hit by a pitch.
Hereafter, two runs were scored on a single by Carlos Santana, which brought Encarnacion to second base.
The inning then ended when Jay Bruce lined into an unassisted inning-ending double play, but that also ended in a challenge and an injury.
With the Yankees-infield playing the shift, Bruce lined the ball to short stop Didi Gregorius, who was standing on the right side of second base.
After catching the ball, Gregorius made a great play and dove to second base to also eliminate Encarnacion.
Initially, the runner was ruled safe, which was challenged.
While returning to the base, Encarnacion twisted his right ankle and fell down in pain.
In the meantime, the reviews showed that Gregorius was in time and so, the call was overturned and the double play was completed.
Encarnacion had to be carried off the field and left with a sprained ankle.
Cleveland took a 3-2 lead in the second at bat.
Austin Jackson led off with a single and reached second base safely when an error was made on a force play-grounder by Yan Gomes.
The two runners advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Giovanny Urshela.
With first base open, Francisco Lindor was walked intentionally.
Jason Kipnis followed with a runscoring single, but three runners were left behind when the next two hitters were eliminated.
The Yankees then rallied for four runs with two outs in the top of the third inning off of Corey Kluber.
The righthander led the Major League this season with the lowest ERA (2.25) and the lowest opposing batting average (.193), but now gave up four hits and four earned runs in this at bat.
Kluber began by striking out Aaron Judge, but then gave up a single to Gary Sánchez, who moved on a grounder by Didi Gregorius.
Moments later, Sánchez scored the tying run on a single by Starlin Castro.
Greg Bird followed with another single, then Aaron Hicks drove the ball into rightfield for a 3-run homerun to make it a 6-3 score.
...Francisco Lindor hit a grand slam homerun for Cleveland...
...On the photo, he hits for Puerto Rico against the Netherlands...
...in the Semi-Final of the World Baseball Classic in March...
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In the top of the fifth, the Yankees added two more runs when Didi Gregorius led off with a walk and scored on an one-out homerun by Greg Bird to increase the lead to 8-3.
In the meantime, CC Sabathia encountered no problems.
Since the second inning, the lefthander retired eleven consecutive hitters.
But in the sixth inning, Cleveland struck with two outs!
Sabathia walked lead-off hitter Carlos Santana, then saw Jay Bruce again line out to short stop Didi Gregorius.
That was the sign for a pitching change and Chad Green took over.
He first got a flyout, but then gave up a double to Yan Gomes and got the bases loaded when he hit pinch-hitter Lonnie Chisenhall with a pitch.
However, when the hit batter was called, Yankee-catcher Gary Sánchez immediately reacted to the dug-out that it wasn't.
Indeed, replays showed that the ball hit the knob of the bat instead of hitting the batter.
For some reason, the Yankees didn't opt for a challenge and that was costly.
With a very good chance of the hit batter call being overturned, it would have been a foul tip-strikeout to end the inning!
Now, the bases were loaded and the second delivery to next hitter Francisco Lindor was hit on the rightfield foul-pole for a grand slam homerun!
And that narrowed Cleveland's deficit to only 8-7!
Hereafter, David Robertson took over from Green and closed with a strikeout, but the Indians were completely back into the game.
It then became a new ball game when Jay Bruce led off the bottom of the eighth inning with a homerun that made it an 8-8 tie!
New York got into scoring position in the top of the ninth, but left a runner behind on third base off of Andrew Miller.
Todd Frazier led off with a single and moved on a sacrifice bunt by Brett Gardner
Joe Smith then became the new pitcher and saw Frazier move to third base on a grounder by Aaron Judge, but closed with a strikeout for Gary Sánchez.
In the bottom of the ninth, hardthrowing Aroldis Chapman took the mound for the Yankees.
He struckout Francisco Lindor, then gave up a single to Jason Kipnis.
Chapman also struckout José Ramirez and a force out ended the at bat, meaning the game went into extra innings.
Both teams got a runner in scoring position in the tenth inning.
But the New York-runner stranded on third base and the Cleveland-runner on second base.
In the top of the eleventh inning, New York got its first hitter into scoring position.
Todd Frazier led off and his grounder ended in a throwing error (overthrow), that gave him second base.
Frazier was replaced by pinch-runner Ronald Torreyes, but he was then picked off in a close play at second base by catcher Yan Gomes.
Torreyes was initially ruled safe, but that was overturned after a challenge.
With two outs, Aaron Judge walked, but the at bat then ended when Gary Sánchez lined out to centerfield.
After both teams were retired in order in the 12th, it was Cleveland that walked off with the win in the thirteenth!
The Yankees were retired in order again, but Austin Jackson led off with a walk for Cleveland.
Jackson then stole second base on a slow delivery by reliever Dellin Betances, who had taken over the pitching in the eleventh.
A brief delay then followed after Home Plate Umpire Dan Iassogna was hit hard on his mask by a foul-ball, but he luckily was able to continue.
Three pitches later, Yan Gomes hit a walk-off single down the leftfield-line to bring in Jackson and end the game, completing a come-from-behind victory after a five hours and nine minutes marathon!
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Cleveland comes from behind to win second game against Yankees
CLEVELAND, Ohio (USA) -
Cleveland Indians won the second game of the best-of-five American League Division Series against New York Yankees on Friday-evening (October 6) with a 9-8 score in 13 innings after having trailed 8-3.
Cleveland opened the Series on Thursday with a 4-0 shutout-win.
The third game of the Series will be played on Sunday in New York.
New York led 8-3 halfway the sixth inning, but Francisco Lindor then hit a grand slam homerun for Cleveland to make it an 8-7 score.
Two innings later, Jay Bruce homered to bring the Indians alongside.
In March of this year, Lindor played for Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic.
With Puerto Rico, he played against the Netherlands Baseball Kingdom Team in the Semi-Final.
Puerto Rico then won 4-3 in an 11-inning thriller of four hours and 19 minutes to advance to the Final.